Michael Kasman
Graduate Research Assistant
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Kasman is a Robotics PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant at UT Austin’s HeRo Lab with eight years of experience applying software and mechanical engineering to medical and surgical robotics. His background blends hands-on systems work—from mission systems at Collins Aerospace to da Vinci surgical platform assessments—with machine learning research on hand-pose reconstruction and surgical skill evaluation. Comfortable teaching programming fundamentals and building applied mobile and robotics prototypes, he bridges algorithmic research and practical system integration. Based in Austin, he brings a cross-disciplinary Computer Engineering undergraduate foundation and international robotics exposure (Tohoku program) to help translate lab innovations toward clinical and real-world robotic applications. An under-the-radar strength is his trajectory of shifting between industry internships and academia, giving him fluency in both production constraints and exploratory research.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at DallasDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinIB Diploma, IB Diploma at International BaccalaureateTohoku University Engineering Summer Program (TESP) - Robotics, Tohoku University Engineering Summer Program (TESP) - Robotics at Tohoku University
English, Indonesian, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
django6
python5
intern2
css1
javascript1
react1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MCKasman/indoor-navigation
Jul 2018 - Aug 2020
Project done at the University of Texas at Dallas under the Anson L. Clark Summer Research Program.
Contributions:16 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
pythondjangotexasuniversity-of-texassummer
MCKasman/archives
Apr 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:42 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
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